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WAAW* Event:
Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance - Strategies and Challenges
20 - 21 November 2023 in Berlin
* World AMR Awareness Week
Programme & Presentations
]The event took place on 20. and 21. November 2023 as a face-to-face meeting in Berlin. In addition, BVL offered the possibility to follow the event online.
PROGRAMME - DAY 1 20.11.2023 | |
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12:00 - 12:50 | Registration |
13.00 - 13.15 | Welcome speech Friedel Cramer, President, BVL |
13.15 - 13.30 | Welcome speech State Secretary Bender, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture, Germany |
Section "One Health" | |
13.30 - 13.55 | Ana Luisa Perreira Mateus, WOAH - "WOAH and AMR: what we have learnt over the last few years“ [DOWNLOAD] |
14.00 - 14.25 | Bernd-Alois Tenhagen, Speaker JIACRA - "Investigating the association of antimicrobial consumption and resistance in humans and animals on the European level - The JIACRA-reports“ |
14.30 - 14.55 | Ed Topp, INRAE, France - "The environmental dimension of antimicrobial resistance“ [Download] |
15.00 - 15.25 | Guido Werner, RKI - "Antimicrobial resistance across sectors - the devil is in the (molecular) detail“ [DOWNLOAD] |
15.30 - 15.45 | Short discussion Section "One Health“ |
15.45 - 16.15 | Coffee break |
Section "European Medicines Agency Network" | |
16.15 - 16.40 | Thomas Heberer, BVL - "Antimicrobial Resistance: A key area of the European Medicines Agencies Regulatory Network Strategy (EMANS)“ [DOWNLOAD] |
16.45 - 17.10 | María Jesús Lamas Díaz, HMA, AEMPS Spain - "National Competent Authorities addressing AMR: cooperation and coordination among member states“ |
17.15 - 17.40 | Zoltan Kunsagi, EMA - "The latest AMR related activities of the European Medicines Agency - Implementation of the Regulation (EU) 2019/6“ [DOWNLOAD] |
17.45 - 18.00 | Short discussion "Section European Medicines Agency Network“ |
18.00 | Dinner |
PROGRAMME - DAY 2 21.11.2023 | |
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Section "Monitoring and data collection" | |
09.00 - 09.20 | Ulrike Steinacker, BVL - "GermVet - The German National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring on veterinary pathogens" [DOWNLOAD] |
09.25 - 09.45 | Katharina Hofmann, BVL - "Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance in Germany - implementation of European strategies on a national level“ [DOWNLOAD] |
09.50 - 10.10 | Reinhard Fuchs, AGES, Austria - "Antimicrobial use data in veterinary medicine: data collection, validation and benchmarking experiences in Austria“ [DOWNLOAD] |
10.15 - 10.35 | William Fitzgerald, Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Ireland - "Antimicrobial use and the challenges that it presents – An Irish perspective“ [DOWNLOAD] |
10.40 - 11.00 | Consuelo Rubio Montejano, AEMPS, Spain - "Experience with the collection of antimicrobial use data – Spanish experience best practice exchange" [DOWNLOAD] |
11.00 - 11.30 | Snack Break |
Section "Strategies against antimicrobial resistance worldwide" | |
11.30 - 11.55 | Jeffrey Silverstein, US Department of Agriculture, USA - "Agricultural strategies against antimicrobial resistance" |
12.00 - 12.25 | Amy Pruden, Virginia Tech, USA - "Promise and Limitations of Metagenomic Surveillance to Inform Policy and Practice for Combating the Spread of AMR“ [DOWNLOAD] |
12.30 - 12.45 | Karl Lauterbach, Federal Minister of Health, Germany - "closing remarks“ |
12.45 - 13.45 | Panel Discussion: Thomas Heberer (BVL), Ana Luisa Pereira Mateus (WOAH), Amy Pruden (Virginia Tech), Guido Werner (RKI) |
13.45 - 14.00 | Evaluation |
DOWNLOAD PROGRAMME:
Programme: WAAW* Event: Combatting Antimicrobial Resistance - Strategies and Challenges (PDF)